To tell you the truth, we weren't at all surprised by what we saw in the night shots category. It is here that the Lumia 920 excels, with well-exposed images that are very noise-free (for cell phone standards), and at the same time, with little to no blur. Even though we were a bit disappointed to see the Lumia 920 not being quite on par with the leaders in the previous categories, one cannot deny that this is the phone to side with if you're going to be shooting in the dark.

Darken them a bit, add a considerable amount of noise, and you have the night photos of the iPhone 5 – second-best in this category. Unfortunately, Samsung's Note II and Galaxy S III showed tendency to introduce both noise and blurring, making their shots significantly less appealing.

really , DNA has highest benchmark fluid performance best camera, PIcs are sharpest, to compare camera they need to keep all phones on same tripod as comparison is useless, do not and I am sure image sense chip with f 2.0 will come on top

I totally agree with you Abhishek...
When I combined all above images and compared them Droid DNA image was having more details than others and here is the link for the combine image >4shared.com/photo/WQyRMs04/Camera_All.html

The only true PureView, 808, would have absolutely embarrassed the bunch in this test, but it really isn't a relevant phone in other categories.
It can't be considered a high end smartphone, not by a long shot.

As for Sony, I agree they should've put it in the comparison but I doubt it would do more than average.
The upcoming Sony Exmor RS sensor is what we should be interested in seeing..I think it will be the camera to beat it 2013

PA, as i read through, i've noticed that no one has been actually satisfied with the comparisons. On top of that, Ray's name has been abused (whether biased or not, that's completely up to him. And i won't judge him on the matter, not saying that he is or he is not biased). And these things keeps on continuing...
My suggestion is to keep one separate professional especially meant for a particular subject throughout the site. For example, Ray can review phones, Michael can review apps, John can take care of the articles...
Ray, don't take this personal, it can be you or someone else reviewing new phones and the features inside it, that's great. But when it comes to a particular subject like this one, Camera, i want to read a real pro review it. See, Ray can't be reviewing phones and at the same time compare the cameras as well, that's not right.
Different individual reviewing a phone, when it goes against other phones compared by another individual results in confusing conclusion! Which is not good. What i'm giving is just a suggestion...i just don't like having to read the crowd go wild because of the confusing conclusion.

Good point, or, alternately, have each staff member put their comments in and a score, and go from there. So if we see "writer 4" giving "device C" 9 points while the other writers give it a 6, we can see any perceptional.differences.

Or at least have each category have its own score. say there is 4 phones in the round up, have each category worth 4 points. 4 points to first, 3 points to second, ect. add up each category at the end for each phone and the winner is decided numerically. It still is biased by opinion like it always will be, but at least then its a clear cut winner at the end... none of this "well, this camera really did great in all the shots.. .but were gonna go ahead and throw it to the iphone for the win... because its an iphone"

Yes, the 808 would have put the others to shame for most of the contests (to the point that it could have been the baseline instead of the P&S), but calling it the "only true PureView" is silly. It is Nokia's name, they can apply it to what they want, just as apple will put "retina" and "I" on darn near anything they can, or Samsung naming everything but their non-smartphones Galaxy, even though initially that was reserved for their best smartphone, etc.

And no, I am not "butthurt"; the iPhail uses Sony optics which are right up there with Nokia in terms of smartphone camera quality (though Nokia excels on the software and pushing-envelope front) but the sudden juxtaposition of rankings and results from prior tests and reviews is mildly alarming, to whit, the Lumia bests the iPhail4Stretch on everything except still detail capture, which is likely resolvable with a software update. Mix these results with those in the Lumia 920 vs iPhail4Stretch and the ranking order should be switched.

That said, I am disappointed that HTC did so relatively poorly. For a while they had among the best smartphone cameras you could get outside of a Nokia N8.

I agree as well. Did you see how the Lumia 920 wasn't even mention in the video test and by looking at the video it out shined the rest. Its great being able to go to other websites and get true infomation all around. Video/Camera!

That's the OIS at work. I used it at a football game the other day. The guy in front of me used a galaxy at the same time. He was blown away by the results. I do hope that the software fix for the still shots gets here soon though. I would like to see the 920 find its way to the top of the list. All in all, these phones all have pretty good cameras.

Either your camera is bad, or you have been paid well, 'coz with OIS tech, there is no way Nokia 920 lags behind in video, and further more, it has the best colour reproduction. I have used and tested all of the camera phones, and also 808 pureview, and N8. To tell you the truth, I have received professional training on a Sony Alpha DSLR-290Y, and Lumia's shots stood nearby.

PS - Also it could be that the person capturing the snaps was not trained or even good at capturing photos, as in the category of Colour Reproduction, Night Shots, and Video recording, Lumia is by far the best device to be tested.

Don't be a fanboy and accept facts, this is a major tech site, im sure they have properly trained professionals doing the job fro them and reviewing, if Nokia Lumia loses out is not the end of the world!

Also I found that on every page in the website, a tag stating - "Learn More about Verizon pre-owned phones (sponsored)", while the 920 is primarily an at&t offering. The iPhone, S3, and Note II, are all available for on-contract by Verizon. This seems suspicious.

PS - Droid DNA was not mentioned as any Phonearena can't so easily fool people, or they will not be left credible anymore.

When it come to lumia then only low light and night shots?... cmon man... Are these the only times u r gonna take a photo? Nokia 808 is good, lumia 920? Nokia concentrated too much on low light and stabilization.. well many people doesnt take photos only in the evening or at night and most of us doesnt shake our hands while doing so.. Nokia should have known better..

Look through Facebook, flikr, any other photo sharing site outside of professional. Do you realize what you tend to see? Improperly lit shots, shots with dim ambiance that are less than useful and unmemorable because the users are using the only camera they have convenient, the one on their phones. Nokia is showing these users there is a much better option and better results available from an even better device than what they use. In short, they DO know better. You just don't get it.

I agree with -box-. Most pics I take are indoors: parties, museums, my dog playing inside, etc. Less often of outdoor shots. So, I would go for the Lumina 920. (I had owned the legendary Fuji F30, the best low-light P&S camera ever made, but it wasn't practical as it was slow and heavy.)

Image stabilization is important, especially if your viewing on your hdtv. The 920 sample looked almost like it was mounted on a tripod when panning. I can see some serious pro videos taken on this one.

On the videos where I notice the 920 has a weakness is on recording audio in a noisy environment. On a quiet scene, the 920 has the best sound recording and the announcer's voice sounded nice and full, where on all the others, it sounded tinny. But on a noisy scene, everything sounded muffled and digitized as it tried to suppress the background noise.

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